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Sturm, Ruger and Company to acquire assets of Marlin Firearm
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<blockquote data-quote="Silverstrike" data-source="post: 16499279" data-attributes="member: 4781"><p>Yeah the vast majority of Russian contract 1895's came from Spain during the late 50's early 60's by Interarms when they imported them before the 1968 Gun control act put a stop to surplus military arms importation. The Republican Spanish forces got 9,000 to as high as 12,000 of these rifles from the USSR (1936-38) when they turned over their gold reserves to the USSR to buy war material and arms from the Soviet Union. 300,000 of these rifles was made and they was the lion share of the 421,000 and some odd 1895's made during it's run until the late 20's to real early 30's. The Spanish had the 3rd biggest gold reserves in their banking and vault network. The USA was first and the USSR was 2nd. With the transfer the USSR was almost in spitting distance of overtaking the USA in that reguard. This rifle survived 3 wars a revolution and the 60's to today pretty much unaltered. The only thing I had to do was reweld a feed guide in the magazine as it was broken but it has been top notch and no other issues. But the hardest thing to find on these rifles is the stripper clip guides on top of the receiver for the Mosin 5 round clips to insert it in to strip the rounds into the magazine.</p><p></p><p> If the rifle does not have those then it would be a hard tracking down for replacements. The last guides I seen for sale was about 2016 from Finland and they was going for almost $500! USD but if the barrel hasn't been chopped and all the hardware is still original then having a set of custom wood buttstock and forearm and tracking the other metal bits wouldn't be too hard as it is the same exact stuff the other musket varients used except for the rear sight which is the only 6 step type to be used in the 1895's and it is calibrated for the old Russian Arshin system where 1 Arshin is equal to .72 Yard and it goes up to 3,200 Arshins. But these rifles has taken a big leap in price I paid almost $2,500 for this back in 2012 now I could probably sell it for a little less than $4,000 as the 100th anniversary of the Great war/ WWI has put almost everything on an upward trajectory on price.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silverstrike, post: 16499279, member: 4781"] Yeah the vast majority of Russian contract 1895's came from Spain during the late 50's early 60's by Interarms when they imported them before the 1968 Gun control act put a stop to surplus military arms importation. The Republican Spanish forces got 9,000 to as high as 12,000 of these rifles from the USSR (1936-38) when they turned over their gold reserves to the USSR to buy war material and arms from the Soviet Union. 300,000 of these rifles was made and they was the lion share of the 421,000 and some odd 1895's made during it's run until the late 20's to real early 30's. The Spanish had the 3rd biggest gold reserves in their banking and vault network. The USA was first and the USSR was 2nd. With the transfer the USSR was almost in spitting distance of overtaking the USA in that reguard. This rifle survived 3 wars a revolution and the 60's to today pretty much unaltered. The only thing I had to do was reweld a feed guide in the magazine as it was broken but it has been top notch and no other issues. But the hardest thing to find on these rifles is the stripper clip guides on top of the receiver for the Mosin 5 round clips to insert it in to strip the rounds into the magazine. If the rifle does not have those then it would be a hard tracking down for replacements. The last guides I seen for sale was about 2016 from Finland and they was going for almost $500! USD but if the barrel hasn't been chopped and all the hardware is still original then having a set of custom wood buttstock and forearm and tracking the other metal bits wouldn't be too hard as it is the same exact stuff the other musket varients used except for the rear sight which is the only 6 step type to be used in the 1895's and it is calibrated for the old Russian Arshin system where 1 Arshin is equal to .72 Yard and it goes up to 3,200 Arshins. But these rifles has taken a big leap in price I paid almost $2,500 for this back in 2012 now I could probably sell it for a little less than $4,000 as the 100th anniversary of the Great war/ WWI has put almost everything on an upward trajectory on price. [/QUOTE]
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